Sign up for special AHCJ member benefitsAHCJ is always working to increase the benefits available to our members. We are happy to present more valuable benefits. To sign up for any of these benefits, please scroll to the bottom of the page and fill out the form. JAMA/ArchivesJAMA & Archives Journals includes the Journal of the American Medical Association and the specialty Archives Journals, published by the association. JAMA/Archives has arranged for AHCJ members to have free access to its publications.
Annual ReviewsAnnual Reviews, which publishes authoritative, analytic reviews in 37 disciplines within the biomedical, physical and social sciences, is offering AHCJ members free access to current and archived content. This would cost thousands of dollars if you signed up on your own. The nonprofit scientific publisher is dedicated to helping scholars cope with the ever-increasing volume of research and data by bringing them the best in comprehensive and affordable scientific review literature.
American Journal of Public HealthThe American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) is dedicated to original work in research, research methods, and program evaluation in the field of public health. This prestigious journal also regularly publishes authoritative editorials and commentaries and serves as a forum for the analysis of health policy. The stated mission of the Journal is "to advance public health research, policy, practice, and education." All published papers have undergone rigorous peer review (only one of five submitted papers is accepted for publication). Each month, the nation's most influential public health professionals turn to AJPH for the most current, authoritative, in-depth information in the field. An online subscription to AJPH normally costs more than $200. Complimentary press access to the American Journal of Public Health is provided to members of the Association of Health Care Journalists by the American Public Health Association (APHA) Office of Communications. By accessing the site as a journalist, you are agreeing to abide by all APHA press policies and regulations. Press access is only for credentialed journalists and is only available through APHA. Sharing the password with others is a violation of APHA policies and may result in your access privileges being revoked. Credentialed journalists can also gain access to embargoed material by signing up to receive monthly press releases highlighting upcoming articles before they are published online. Cochrane LibraryAccess to the online Cochrane Library of systematic reviews and other databases is free for AHCJ members. This online access usually costs $285 per year per person, but the Cochrane Collaboration and its publisher, Wiley InterScience, has waived the fee for journalists who belong to AHCJ. Systematic reviews are a way of carefully summarizing what's known and unknown about medical interventions and other topics. They are less subject to the personal biases that may be found in typical reviews written by individual clinicians or researchers. Examples of reviews from the Spring 2007 edition of The Cochrane Library:
Reviewers are typically researchers who volunteer to work with other members of the Cochrane Collaboration to perform exhaustive searches for reports of trials (both published and unpublished) from around the world. They then critically examine the quality of the trials, select the best (and explain why they accepted or rejected each trial), and then use statistical methods to synthesize the results of individual trials. In this way, systematic reviews can provide a broad sense of the state of the art. The reviews can help journalists and our readers and audiences avoid being whipsawed back and forth by the reports of individual trials that may seem to conclude one thing on one day and something different the next. They also help provide context to help reporters quickly determine how a new research report compares to previous work. And finally, the reviews often point out serious gaps in our knowledge, which can help journalists determine whether the statements of their sources are based on solid evidence or merely reflect personal opinions or institutional and corporate "spin." Systematic reviews are an essential tool for our reality checks of the research news releases with which we are inundated. The Cochrane Library is one of the leading sources of these systematic reviews. In addition to nearly 5,000 reviews in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR; Cochrane Reviews), the Cochrane Library also includes:
Click for more information About The Cochrane Collaboration. A media guide offers more information about what's available and how to access it. Health AffairsOnline access to Health Affairs is free for AHCJ members. An individual subscription usually costs about $125 a year. Health Affairs is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to health policy, much the same way JAMA is devoted to medical science. The journal is nonpartisan and covers both domestic U.S. and international issues. More than half of congressional staff on committees that oversee health care consult Health Affairs, and its articles have been cited in congressional testimony more than any other policy journal. It is published six times a year by Project Hope, a charity organization started in 1958 with a donated U.S. Navy hospital ship. The journal also publishes articles on its Web site about once a week. The 25-year archive is online and includes every article ever published. Recently published articles include:
UpToDate.comUpToDate is an electronic information resource available via the Web and mobile devices. With UpToDate, you can get specific, detailed answers to clinical questions. The site features 4,400 expert clinicians who function as authors, editors and peer reviewers and over 400,000 users who provide feedback and questions about health and patient care. It covers more than 8,500 topics in 17 medical specialties and includes more than 97,000 pages of text, plus graphics, links to Medline abstracts, more than 385,000 references and a drug database. Physician editors and authors review and update the content continuously. UpToDate is evidence-based and uses a literature-driven updating system; more than 440 journals are monitored by editors and authors, and anytime something of importance is published, it is incorporated into the program. It does not accept money from pharmaceutical companies or other advertisers. UpToDate receives its financial support exclusively from subscriptions, which normally cost up to $495 a year. Get access to these valuable resourcesFill out the form below to sign up. You will get an e-mail from the organization(s) you select with information on how to register on their Web sites. If you have any questions, please e-mail info@healthjournalism.org. |
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